Radeon HD 6000 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Release date October 22, 2010
Codename Northern Islands
Vancouver
Architecture TeraScale 2
TeraScale 3
Transistors and fabrication process
  • 292M 40 nm (Cedar)
  • 370M 40 nm (Caicos)
  • 716M 40 nm (Turks)
  • 1.040M 40 nm (Juniper)
  • 1.700M 40 nm (Barts)
  • 2.640M 40 nm (Cayman)
Cards
Entry-level 64xx - 66xx
Mid-range 67xx
High-end 68xx - 6970
Enthusiast 6990
API support
Direct3D Direct3D 11
Shader Model 5.0
OpenCL OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL OpenGL 4.4[1]
History
Predecessor Radeon HD 5000 Series
Successor Radeon HD 7000 Series

The Northern Islands series is a family of GPUs developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) forming part of its Radeon-brand, based on the 40 nm process. Some models are based on TeraScale 2 (VLIW5), some on the new TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) introduced with them.

Starting with this family, the former ATI brand was officially discontinued in favor of making a correlation between the graphics products and the AMD branding for computing platforms (the CPUs and chipsets). Therefore, the AMD brand was used as the replacement. The logo for graphics products and technologies also received a minor makeover (using design elements of the 2010 "AMD Vision" logo).

Its direct competitor was Nvidia's GeForce 500 Series; they were launched approximately a month apart.

Architecture

This article is about all products under the Radeon HD 6000 Series brand.

Multi-monitor support

The AMD Eyefinity-branded on-die display controllers were introduced in September 2009 in the Radeon HD 5000 Series and have been present in all products since.[2]

Video acceleration

Unified Video Decoder (UVD3) is present on the die of all products and supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD.

Products

The 6800 series was the first batch of the Radeon 6000 series. Codenamed ''Northern Islands'',[3] this series was released on October 22, 2010 after brief delays. Over the following months, the budget, midrange, and high-end cards were filled into the series.

Radeon HD 6400

AMD released the entry-level Radeon HD 6400 GPU on February 7, 2011. Codenamed Caicos, it came to market at the same time as the Radeon HD 6500/6600 Turks GPUs. The sole Caicos product, the Radeon HD 6450, aimed to replace the HD 5450. Compared to the 5450 it has double the stream processors, GDDR5 support, along with new Northern Island technologies.

Radeon HD 6500/6600

Codenamed Turks, these entry-level GPUs were released on February 7, 2011. The Turks family includes Turks PRO and Turks XT which are marketed as HD 6570 and HD 6670 respectively. They were originally released to OEMs only, but later released to retail.

The Radeon HD 6570 and 6670 are minor upgrades of their Evergreen counterparts, the HD 5570 and 5670. Turks GPUs contain 80 more stream processors and 4 more texture units. They have also been upgraded to support the new technologies found in the Northern Islands GPUs such as HDMI 1.4a, UVD3, and stereoscopic 3D.

Radeon HD 6700

Codenamed Barts LE, the Radeon HD 6790 was released on April 5, 2011. There is one retail product available, the Radeon HD 6790. Barts uses shaders of the same 5-way VLIW architecture as HD 5000 series.

AMD has confirmed that the HD 6700 cards use the Juniper XT and Juniper Pro cores from the HD 5700 series, and therefore they are not formally Northern Islands GPUs. Thus 6770 and 6750 are essentially the 5770 and 5750 respectively, with label being the main difference. There are a few enhancements to the 5700 series including:

Radeon HD 6800

Codenamed Barts, the Radeon HD 6800 series was released on October 23, 2010. Products include Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870. Barts uses shaders of the same 5-way VLIW architecture as HD 5000 series.[5]

Radeon HD 6900

This family includes three different high-end products all based on TeraScale 3 (VLIW4)

Codenamed Cayman, the Radeon HD 6900 series was expected to be released on November 12, 2010. These release dates were pushed further back and Cayman was released on December 15, 2010. Products include Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon HD 6970. Cayman is based on new 4-way VLIW architecture, which was chosen over AMD's older VLIW5 in order to reduce complexity in the design of AMD's stream processors. Studies showed that few applications fully leveraged the extra stage in a VLIW5 SP. Reducing the stream processors to VLIW4 allows AMD to save on transistors for each individual SP and add more overall in the future.[7]

AMD PowerTune was introduced with Radeon HD 6900 series.

Graphics cards table

Northern Islands (HD 6xxx) Series

Model Launch Codename Architecture Fab (nm) Transistors (million) Die size (mm2) Bus interface Clock rate Core config[lower-alpha 1] Fillrate Memory[lower-alpha 2] Processing power
(GFLOPS)
TDP (Watts)[lower-alpha 3] API support (version) Release Price (USD)
Core (MHz) Memory (MHz) Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (MB) Bus width (bit) Bus type Bandwidth (GB/s) Single precision Double precision Idle Max. Direct3D OpenGL OpenCL
Radeon HD 6350 April 7, 2011 Cedar TeraScale 2 40 292 59 PCIe 2.1 ×16 650 800 80:8:4 2.6 5.2 512 64 DDR3 12.8 104 N/A 6.4 19.1 11.0 4.4 1.2 $23
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) February 7, 2011 Caicos 370 67 625
750
533
800
160:8:4 2.5
3.0
5.0
6.0
512 64 DDR3 8.5
12.8
200
240
N/A 9 18
27
11.0 4.4 1.2 OEM
Radeon HD 6450 April 7, 2011 Caicos 370 67 625
750
800
900
160:8:4 2.5
3.0
5.0
6.0
512
1024
2048
64 DDR3 12.8
14.4
200
240
N/A 9 18
27
11.0 4.4 1.2 $55
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) February 7, 2011 Turks PRO 716 118 650 900 480:24:8 5.2 15.6 1024 128 DDR3 28.8 624 N/A 10 44 11.0 4.4 1.2 OEM
Radeon HD 6570 April 19, 2011 Turks PRO 716 118 650
650
667
1000
480:24:8 5.2 15.6 2048
4096
128 DDR3
GDDR5
21.3
64
624 N/A 11 60 11.0 4.4 1.2 $79
Radeon HD 6670 April 19, 2011 Turks XT 716 118 800
800
800
1000
480:24:8 6.4 19.2 512
1024
2048
128 DDR3
GDDR5
25.6
64
768 N/A 12 66 11.0 4.4 1.2 $99
Radeon HD 6750 (OEM) January 21, 2011 Juniper PRO 1040 166 700
700
1150
1150
720:36:16 11.2 25.2 512
1024
128 GDDR5 73.6 1008 N/A 16 86 11.0 4.4 1.2 OEM
Radeon HD 6770 April 19, 2011 Juniper XT 1040 166 850
850
1200
1050
800:40:16 13.6 34.0 512
1024
128 GDDR5 76.8
67.2
1360 N/A 18 108 11.0 4.4 1.2 Unknown
Radeon HD 6790 April 4, 2011 Barts LE 1700 255 840 1050 800:40:16 13.4 33.6 1024 256 GDDR5 134.4 1344 N/A 19 150 11.0 4.4 1.2 $149
Radeon HD 6850 October 22, 2010 Barts Pro 775 1000 960:48:32 24.8 37.2 1024 GDDR5 128 1488 N/A 19 127 11.0 4.4 1.2 $179
Radeon HD 6870 October 22, 2010 Barts XT 900 1050 1120:56:32 28.8 50.4 1024
2048
GDDR5 134.4 2016 N/A 19 151 11.0 4.4 1.2 $239
Radeon HD 6930 December 2011 Cayman CE TeraScale 3 2640 389 750
750
1200
1200
1280:80:32 24.0 60.0 1024
2048
GDDR5 153.6 1920 480 18 186 11.0 4.4 1.2 $180
Radeon HD 6950 December 15, 2010 Cayman Pro 800
800
1250
1250
1408:88:32 25.6 70.4 1024
2048
GDDR5 160 2253 563 20 200 11.0 4.4 1.2 $259
$299
Radeon HD 6970 December 15, 2010 Cayman XT 880 1375 1536:96:32 28.2 84.5 2048 GDDR5 176 2703 675 20 250 11.0 4.4 1.2 $369
Radeon HD 6990 March 8, 2011 Antilles XT 2640 ×2 389 ×2 830 1250 1536:96:32 ×2 26.5 ×2 79.6 ×2 2048 ×2 256 ×2 GDDR5 160 ×2 5099 1276.88 37 375 11.0 4.4 1.2 $699
Model Launch Codename Architecture Fab (nm) Transistors (Million) Die Size (mm2) Bus interface Core (MHz) Memory (MHz) Core config[lower-alpha 1] Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (MiB) Bus width (bit) Bus type Bandwidth (GB/s) Single Precision Double Precision Idle Max. Direct3D OpenGL OpenCL Release Price (USD)
Clock rate Fillrate Memory[lower-alpha 2] Processing power
(GFLOPS)
TDP (W)[lower-alpha 3] API support (version)
  1. 1 2 Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units
  2. 1 2 The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with other DDR memory.
  3. 1 2 The TDP is reference design TDP values from AMD. Different non-reference board designs from vendors may lead to slight variations in actual TDP.

IGP (HD 6xxx)

Desktop
Model Launch Codename Architecture Fab (nm) Core Clock rate (MHz) Config core[lower-alpha 1] Fillrate Shared Memory Processing power
(GFLOPS)
API compliance (version) Combined TDP[lower-alpha 2] APU
Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Bus width (bit) Bus type Bandwidth (GB/s) Direct3D OpenGL OpenCL Idle (W) Max. (W)
Radeon HD 6370D Q4 2011 WinterPark TeraScale 2 32 443 160:8:4 1.77 3.54 128 DDR3-1600 25.6 142 11.0 4.1 1.2 Unknown 65 E2-3200
Radeon HD 6410D June 20, 2011 WinterPark TeraScale 2 32 600 160:8:4 2.4 4.8 128 DDR3-1866 29.9 192 11.0 4.1 1.2 Unknown 65 A4-3300, A4-3400
Radeon HD 6530D June 20, 2011 BeaverCreek TeraScale 2 32 443 320:16:8 3.54 7.08 128 DDR3-1866 29.9 284 11.0 4.1 1.2 Unknown 65100 A6-3500, A6-3600, A6-3620, A6-3650, A6-3670K
Radeon HD 6550D June 20, 2011 BeaverCreek TeraScale 2 32 600 400:20:8 4.8 12 128 DDR3-1866 29.9 480 11.0 4.1 1.2 Unknown 65100 A8-3800, A8-3820, A8-3850, A8-3870K
  1. Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units
  2. TDP specified for AMD reference designs, includes CPU power consumption. Actual TDP of retail products may vary.
Ultra-mobile
Model Released Codename Architecture Fab (nm) Core Clock rate (MHz) Config core[lower-alpha 1] Fillrate Shared Memory Processing power
(GFLOPS)
API compliance (version) Combined TDP[lower-alpha 2] APU
Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) Direct3D OpenGL OpenCL Idle (W) Max. (W)
Radeon HD 6250[10] November 9, 2010[11] Wrestler[12] TeraScale 2 40 280400 80:8:4:2 1.121.6 2.243.2 8.525 DDR3-1066 64 44.864 11.0 4.4 1.2 Unknown 9 C-30, C-50, Z-60
Radeon HD 6290 January 7, 2011 Ontario TeraScale 2 40 276400 80:8:4:2 1.121.6 2.243.2 8.525 DDR3-1066 64 44.864 11.0 4.4 1.2 Unknown 9 C-60
Radeon HD 6310[10] November 9, 2010[11] Wrestler[12] TeraScale 2 40 492 80:8:4:2 2.0 4.0 8.525 DDR3-1066 64 80 11.0 4.4 1.2 Unknown 18 E-240, E-300, E-350
Radeon HD 6320 August 15, 2011 Wrestler TeraScale 2 40 508600 80:8:4:2 2.0322.4 4.0644.8 10.6 DDR3-1333 64 8297 11.0 4.4 1.2 Unknown 18 E-450
  1. Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units : Compute units
  2. TDP specified for AMD reference designs, includes CPU power consumption. Actual TDP of retail products may vary.

Vancouver (HD 6xxxM) Series

Model[13] Launch Model Number Code name Fab (nm) Bus interface Core clock (MHz) Memory clock (MHz) Config core1 Fillrate Memory Processing Power
GFLOPs
TDP (Watts)GPU only Features
Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (MiB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit)
Radeon HD 6330M[14] November 26, 2010 Robson LP Cedar 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 500 800 80:8:4 2.0 4.0 up to
1024
12.8 DDR3 64 80 7 UVD2.2, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6350M[14] November 26, 2010 Robson Pro Cedar 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 500
500
800
900
80:8:4 2.0 4.0 up to
1024
12.8
14.4
DDR3 64 80 7 UVD2.2, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6370M[14] November 26, 2010 Robson XT Cedar 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 750 900 80:8:4 3.0 6.0 1024 14.4 DDR3 64 120 11 UVD2.2, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6430M[15] January 4, 2011 Seymour LP Caicos 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 480 800 160:8:4 1.92 3.84 1024 12.8 DDR3 64 153.6 Unknown UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6450M[15] January 4, 2011 Seymour Pro Caicos 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 600 800 160:8:4 2.4 4.8 1024 12.8 DDR3 64 192 Unknown UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6470M[15] January 4, 2011 Seymour XT Caicos 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 700
750
800
800
160:8:4 2.8
3.0
5.6
6.0
1024 12.8 DDR3 64 224
240
Unknown UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6490M[15] January 4, 2011 Seymour XT Caicos 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 800 800 160:8:4 3.2 6.4 512 25.6 GDDR5 64 256 Unknown UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6530M[16] November 26, 2010 Capilano Pro Redwood 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 500 900 400:20:8 4.0 10.0 1024 28.8 DDR3 128 400 26 UVD2.2, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6550M[16] November 26, 2010 Capilano Pro Redwood 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 600 900 400:20:8 4.8 12.0 1024 28.8 DDR3 128 480 26 UVD2.2, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6570M[16] November 26, 2010 Capilano XT Redwood 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 650 900 400:20:8 5.2 13.0 1024 28.8
57.6
DDR3
GDDR5
128 520 30 UVD2.2, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6630M[17] January 4, 2011 Whistler LP Turks 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 485 800 480:24:8 3.88 11.64 256(mac)
1024
51.2 (mac)
25.6
GDDR5(mac)
DDR3
128 465.6 Unknown UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6650M[17] January 4, 2011 Whistler Pro Turks 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 600 900 480:24:8 4.8 14.4 1024 28.8 DDR3 128 576 Unknown UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6730M[17] January 4, 2011 Whistler XT Turks 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 725 800 480:24:8 5.8 17.4 1024 25.6 DDR3 128 696 Unknown UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6750M[17] January 4, 2011 Whistler Pro Turks 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 600 800
900
480:24:8 4.8 14.4 256
512
1024
51.2
57.6
GDDR5 128 576 Unknown UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6770M[17] January 4, 2011 Whistler XT Turks 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 725 900 480:24:8 5.8 17.4 1024 57.6 GDDR5 128 696 Unknown UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6830M[18] January 4, 2011 Granville Pro Juniper 40 PCIe x16 2.1 575 800 800:40:16 9.2 23.0 up to 2048 25.6 DDR3 128 920 39 UVD2.2, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6850M[18] January 4, 2011 Granville XT Juniper 40 PCIe x16 2.1 675 800 800:40:16 10.8 27.0 up to 2048 25.6 DDR3 128 1080 50 UVD2.2, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6850M[18] January 4, 2011 Granville Pro Juniper 40 PCIe x16 2.1 575 800 800:40:16 9.2 23.0 1024 57.6 GDDR5 128 920 39 UVD2.2, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6870M[18] January 4, 2011 Granville XT Juniper 40 PCIe x16 2.1 675 1000 800:40:16 10.8 27 1024 64 GDDR5 128 1080 50 UVD2.2, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6950M[19] January 4, 2011 Blackcomb Pro Barts 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 580 900 960:48:32 18.56 27.84 up to
2048
115.2 GDDR5 256 1113.6 50 UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6970M[19] January 4, 2011 Blackcomb XT Barts 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 680 900 960:48:32 21.76 32.64 up to
2048
115.2 GDDR5 256 1305.6 75 UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Radeon HD 6990M[20] July 12, 2011 Blackcomb XTX Barts 40 PCIe 2.1 x16 715 900 1120:56:32 22.88 40.04 2048 115.2 GDDR5 256 1601.6 75 UVD3.0, PowerPlay
Model[13] Launch Model Number Code name Fab (nm) Bus interface Core clock (MHz) Memory clock (MHz) Config core1 Fillrate Memory Processing Power
GFLOPs
TDP (Watts) Features
Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (MiB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit)

IGP (HD 6xxxG)

Model Released Code name Fab (nm) Core Clock (MHz) Config core1 Fillrate Shared Memory GFLOPS Combined TDP2 (W)
Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) Idle Max.
Radeon HD 6380G June 14, 2011 WinterPark[N 1] 32 400 160:8:4 1.6 3.2 17.06 DDR3-1333 128 128 Unknown 35
Radeon HD 6480G June 14, 2011 BeaverCreek[N 2] 32 444 240:12:4 1.77 3.55 17.06 DDR3-1333 128 213.1 Unknown 35-45
Radeon HD 6520G June 14, 2011 BeaverCreek[N 3] 32 400 320:16:8 3.2 6.4 17.06 DDR3-1333 128 256 Unknown 35-45
Radeon HD 6620G June 14, 2011 BeaverCreek[N 4] 32 444 400:20:8 3.55 8.88 25.6 DDR3-1600 128 355.2 Unknown 35-45
  1. used in E2-3000M APU
  2. used in A4-3300M and A4-3310MX APU
  3. used in A6-3400M and A6-3410MX APU
  4. used in A8-3500M, A8-3510MX and A8-3530MX APU

See also

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